भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

revolutionary conspirators, as fellow-convicts. Nearly a hundred or more
Sikh and non-Sikh revolutionaries of the Gadar Party and other societies,
who were originally sentenced to death but whose sentence was later on
commuted to deportation, also came along with us, to the Andamans to
serve their terms and stayed there with us suffering unbearable innumerable
hardships and torture for years together for the sacred cause of the
liberation of our motherland. Subsequent to my release from the Andamans,
I again came into very intimate contact with the millions of the avowed
believers in Hindutwa in the great organizational movement for the
solidarity of the Hindus as a staunch opposition to the fanatic Muslim
activities, which was a natural concomitant to the armed revolutionary work
against the British. For want of space, it is impossible even to mention their
names! But a special request has to be made just here, lest the omission of
their names might be misunderstood to be due to their work being less
important in comparison to that of the others whose names are herein
mentioned.
1124. Ever since the sixteenth year of my life—the time when I began to
take part in politics—I have been personally and closely connected—at
times as a vehement adversary—with all the above-mentioned four phases
of Indian political life—the Loyalists, the non-violent but vehemently
nationalistic, the revolutionist and finally the Hinduistic—subsequent to the
defeat in the war of Indepenedence of 1857. As such, the compilation and
interpretation from the Hindu standpoint of the history of the period has
been fully done in my writings and speeches made on every occasion
during these fifty or sixty years. Now I don't think it necessary for me to
add even a single word to the published work of mine running to about
seven to eight thousand printed pages in the form of books or otherwise,
leaving aside hundreds of my speeches, interviews, articles and the written
work that is now lost beyond recovery and now at this age—the eightieth
year of my life—when I am confined to bed, I have not the physical
strength left in me to go on repeating it once again!
Conclusion
1125. During this ceaseless and relentless war with the British, which
India had carried on so consistently and so resolutely with violent and non-
violent means for more than a hundred years, from its first volcanic eruption
in 1857 to the year 1946, when the Second World War had come to an end
—in order that it might free itself from the tyrannical bonds of British